Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.